Hunt is on for blogger’s killers

Brutal killing: Following Niloy’s death activists have taken to the streets of Dhaka in protest. — AFP

DHAKA: Dhaka vowed to hunt down the killers of secular blogger Niloy Chakrabarti who became the fourth such writer to be murdered in Bangladesh by suspected Islamist militants this year.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said the nation’s intelligence agencies went straight to work after a gang of machete-armed attackers hacked the blogger to death at his home in the capital on Friday.